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Clinton Insider: 'Iron My Shirt' Taunt Rallied Women Voters

ConsortiumNews.com   |  Robert Parry   |   January 10, 2008 09:10 AM


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One source inside the Clinton camp said the "iron my shirts" comment appeared to anger and energize women in particular, boosting Hillary Clinton's share of the women's vote and pushing her to a narrow upset victory over Barack Obama.

The Clinton source said Hillary Clinton's tearing up at another Monday event seemed to play better with men who suddenly saw her as more vulnerable and appealing. The two incidents together were viewed by Clinton insiders as helping to explain how Clinton succeeded in righting her foundering campaign at the last minute.

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- liberal I'm a Fan of liberal 2 fans permalink
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Say anything you want, Hillary is to smart for the good old boys in Washington.
They are a afraid of a smart woman it castrates their egos.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:35 AM on 01/11/2008

The more Hillary bashing and sexist comments made about her by pundits in the media and bloggers on the Internet, the more women voters who are undecided will commit to her. All you Hillary bashers are your own worst enemy. Two female neighbors of mine who were previously leaning towards Obama decided to support Clinton after watching the debate and hearing Obama's snide remark that she was nice enough as well as the seeing and hearing comments making fun of her and either calling her weak and not fit to be POTUS or manipulative when she teared up. Hillary won New Hampshire because women who were not included in the polls and were not registered to vote decided to come to the polls to register and they voted predominantly to support her.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:10 AM on 01/11/2008
- certainot I'm a Fan of certainot 2 fans permalink

today (or yesterday?) limbaugh took credit for inspiring the "iron my shirt" heckler. he cites one of his favorite hillary jokes which he recites in public appearances, etc. in it hillary folllows him onto an elevator to worship him and asks what she can do for him, so he strips down to his underwear and then when she is all excited he tells her to fold his clothes.

he and his talk radio wannabes will do similar to obama and edwards as long as their call screeners keep their supporters from getting through- the few who do monitor the GOP talk radio propaganda juggernaut.

if hillary fans want to help her out they might want to monitor their local right wing talk radio blowhards and show signs at the local station and boycott the local sponsors of the continuing mysoginistic hillary-bashing--- they're doing the same to obama and edwards.

it's the uncontested repetition on the talk radio public airwaves to 50-70 MIL americans that makes it acceptable to the rest of the media later in the day or week.

you can't make expensive hair cuts into career defining political issues without talk radio repetition doing the groundwork first. or make the obama madrassa lie into a fact for millions of people.

ignoring talk radio has been a monumental Dem political blunder

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:24 AM on 01/11/2008
- bIgTeX I'm a Fan of bIgTeX 2 fans permalink

Can you imagine someone actually writing that on a sign? ok maybe. Can you imagine that same person getting in their car, driving to an event and holding up the sign? ok maybe. but who the hell cares. my money is on that person being a plant. why? "iron my shirt" i mean 'cmon

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:18 AM on 01/11/2008
- Superfelo I'm a Fan of Superfelo 6 fans permalink

I want to make one thing perfectly clear. If a man had done what Hillary,Tearily, did
he would have been laughed out of the race by now.
Circa, Edmund Muskie, who cried because the press was mean to his wife, lost the chance and opportunity to run for president:
The collapse of Muskie's momentum early in the 1972 campaign is also attributed to his response to campaign attacks. Prior to the New Hampshire primary, the so-called "Canuck Letter" was published in the Manchester Union-Leader. The letter claimed that Muskie had made disparaging remarks about French-Canadians—a remark likely to injure Muskie's support among the French-Canadian population in northern New England. Subsequently, the paper published an attack on the character of Muskie's wife Jane, reporting that she drank and used off-color language during the campaign. Muskie made an emotional defense of his wife in a speech outside the newspaper's offices during a snowstorm. Though Muskie later stated that what had appeared to the press as tears were actually melted snowflakes, the press reported that Muskie broke down and cried, shattering the candidate's image as calm and reasoned.
People
forgave Hillary's fake tears because they thought she could not muster up any.
Enough said.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:13 AM on 01/11/2008
- maxfusion I'm a Fan of maxfusion 12 fans permalink

This headline should have read "iron my shirt taunt rallied women voters" too stupid to see a political plant.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:05 AM on 01/11/2008
- Superfelo I'm a Fan of Superfelo 6 fans permalink

Politics is the art of theatrics-pure make believe-it has its root in "polite"..­.noun:
"politic", the art of being shrew or let's borrow the definition:
"1 : POLITICAL
2 : characterized by shrewdness in managing, contriving, or dealing
3 : sagacious in promoting a policy
4 : shrewdly tactful"
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Everything that happened, ignorant housewife asking how she went on and on;
the yahoos, with a sign "Iron my Shirt"
all political stunts that hit the mark. I still think the counting was rigged;
it being too early in the contest Obama conceded-he was being politic.
Obama knew that he could live on to fight another day. So there you have it.
To he who understands few words are needed.
Enough said.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:45 PM on 01/10/2008

I EXPECT A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE REALLY SHOCKED THAT HILLARY FEELS COMFORTABLE ENOUGH TO EXPRESS HER EMOTIONS FOR ALL TO SEE. HAVE YOU EVER SEEN HER ON LETTERMAN? SHE IS GENUINE, FUNNY AND HAS A SMILE THAT WOULD LIGHT UP ANY ROOM. SHE CRIES, TOO! GOOD FOR HER. MAYBE WE WON'T BE LIED TO WITH A STRAIGHT FACE EVERYDAY WHEN SHE IS PRESIDENT. MAYBE , JUST MAYBE, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WILL AGAIN HAVE A PRESIDENT THAT REPRESENTS THE PEOPLE. HER HUSBAND, BILL, HAD A FEW FLAWS BUT HE SURELY WAS GOOD FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. HILLARY WILL DO JUST FINE WHEN SHE IS IN THE WHITE HOUSE. THIS WORLD NEEDS A LITTLE MOTHERING AND A LOT LESS HOSTILITY.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:55 PM on 01/10/2008
- farseer I'm a Fan of farseer 7 fans permalink
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I'm disappointed that several thousand women decided their vote on the basis of what 2 idiot hecklers did.

Yet ignored (1) the fact that Hillary supported the war and (2) the fact that her campaign is now lying about Obama's record.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:53 PM on 01/10/2008
- JMEB I'm a Fan of JMEB 3 fans permalink

The smartest thing for Obama to do is very, very prominently come to Hillary's defense against the irrational and sexist attacks she's taken. Tell people that meanspirited attacks on her should not be part of this campaign. It would dovetail with his message of transcending partisan bickering nicely.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:43 PM on 01/10/2008
- camcat I'm a Fan of camcat 8 fans permalink

Hillary doesn't take questions from "the little people" anymore. Why would she give such a neanderthal his few seconds of fame and respond to his third grade behavior? Unless (!), she thought she could garner sympathy from the episode and make it work for her. I, too, am among those who suspect the entire thing was a set up. How much are they paying Rove?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:34 PM on 01/10/2008

A feminist calling a man a sexist is like a pot calling he kettle black.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:27 PM on 01/10/2008

If a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bike, then Hillary is not your fish, as she rode in on Bill.

Bill was giving other fish rides too.

Is this the best that America's feminism offers its people?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:25 PM on 01/10/2008

PLANT,SHMANT. That was just another dumb ass guy that thought he was being funny or clever, but it backfired. Treat the women with some respect. She is not only a United States Senator, but she is our former First Lady. As usual, it is big put down to women the world over. The great majority of Americans would never think of humiliating a presidential candidate like that, let alone Hillary Clinton. She has served her nation, and she doesn't deserve the abusive heckling. This guy should have tested the 'Iron my Shirt' Line on his wife before he went to the Clinton rally. After she smacked him, he may have changed his political approach.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:16 PM on 01/10/2008

That comment was obscene and unfitting for anyone who might called themselves an American. If it rallied support to Mrs Clinton then so be it. I may not like her politics but she is a woman of many accomplishments, not the least of which is having to endure the perpetual hate and vitriol of the Neanderthal Republican right.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:57 PM on 01/10/2008
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